A committee of international experts under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in cooperation with the EANM Therapy, Oncology and Dosimetry Committees and with the Society of ...

January 2011 - European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society has certified Zentralklink Bad Berka as an ENETS Centers of Excellence. The certification states that center meets all quality standards defined ...

For the second year in a row, NorCal CarciNET Community and the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) held a patient education day during the SNMMI's Annual Meeting. The program took ...

Ga-68-labeled somatostatin analogs are important imaging agents to detect and manage neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). The SNMMI formed the 68Ga Users Group to advance the use of these imaging agents in the ...

BREAKING NEWS – the radiopharmaceutical Gallium-68 (DOTA0-hel-Tyr3) octreotide (Ga-68 DOTATOC) has been designated as an orphan drug by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the management of neuroendocrine ...

... tumors (GEP-NETs) that do not respond to beta therapy. Researchers selected this image from more than 2,000 studies presented over the course of four days during SNM's 2012 Annual Meeting in Miami Beac ...

Steve Jobs lost his battle with NETs in October 2011, many sites have chronicled his medical care and the various medical treatments he pursued including PRRT. For a detailed look at his medical history ...

CCAN's annual conference was held in Long Island, New York on August 20th 2011. The theme of the day long conference was "Multidisciplinary Approach to the Diagnosis Treatment and Monitoring of NETs." Speake ...

... NETs patient should also evaluate their best treatment option before any treatment.
Does PRRT cause kidney damage?
PRRT could damage kidneys, but the risk is relatively low. Considerable research has ...

... ble choice for someone like me who had tried and failed at most of the known treatments for NETs. The only obstacle was to get insurance coverage and see if Dr. Baum would accept me as a patient.
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... Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosova region will accept patinets from outside the region.
Erasmus MC University Medical Center in Rotterdam (LU177 only)
University of Basel
Uppsala University ...

This section is for doctors who are considering the selection of PRRT to treat one of their patients.
Considering PRRT for a Patient: What a physician should look for
Progressive, somatostatin receptor ...

... tumors include gastroenteropancreatic tumors (socalled GEP-NETs), e.g. arising from the small bowel (often called carcinoid tumors), the pancreas, duodenum or stomach, but also from the large bowel or ...